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Star Wreck Creators Announce Iron Sky
An anonymous reader writes "The makers of the Star Trek and Babylon 5 cross-over spoof Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning have announced their upcoming movie Iron Sky. It's apparently another sci-fi comedy with its own universe. Says Director Timo Vuorensola: 'It is still an open question whether it will be distributed also for free. We would very much like it, but it will depend a lot on the financiers.'"
It's a shame that they're doing comedy again. In the Pirkinning suffered from one clear drawback: Finns can't do parody. We suck at it - sorry.
ItP had really good special effects and decent everything else for an amateur movie - unfortunately the script was the weakest part. I hope they'd either try to make a serious movie or get someone else to try to write the funny parts, since there is potential in the other aspects of the earlier movie.
I hope they spend more time on the script this time.
In the pirkening looked quite good, but the acting and script were just terrible.
They also spent 8 years on the project, something that is quite unheard of when making a movie in Finland commercially. Production phase is usually around 1-2months (excluding preproduction and post).
Will be interesting to see if they manage to make a good movie now that they have to work with financing and so on..
Hope they succeed tho, the industry could use some fresh young blood.
Wow...I really liked Spaceballs....and futurama...and tripping the rift...and Lexx....and Red Dwarf....I think science fiction and comedy do go really well together....because the supposed advancement of the future is set in stark contrast to the constancy of human frailty.....our collective intellect racing ahead of our collective wisdom....it makes one take oneself...and others...less seriously...and makes life more cheerful when you can accept the existenstial absurdity of the human condition
Releasing the first movie for free was refreshing and bold. It did what they wanted, and gained them popularity.
Now it's time to plant feet firmly in reality and have some business model. If they release it for 2 bucks via PayPal or credit card, most people will be able to afford it and still enjoy the product.
Another thing they can do is release a free copy with some ad blocks.
I watched Pirkinning some time ago.
The biggest problem I see is that the more advanced computers get, the easier it is to get _good_ Trek-style special effects.
No computer in the world can help you write a better script, though. I certainly hope more emphasis is put on the writing this time around -- don't get me wrong, I thought the premise in Pirkinning was certainly interesting -- but calling it a Star Trek/B5 crossover is somewhat unrealistic, given what happened in the movie.
That doesn't mean I have any major issues to complain about overall. These people are doing this because they want to, and we really don't have the right to argue against a labor of love.
As for charging a fee to view this new movie: If it's reasonable, I'll pay without question. There's a difference in charging because you need to recoup operating costs: despite the (relative) ease in creating special effects, you need computers, props, makeup, time, effort, catering (pizza), film equipment, and so on, as opposed to churning out Star Trek: XI (thanks again, Paramount. After that last one, the idea makes me sick), to continue milking the cash cow for profits, damn your viewers to hell.
If firefighters fight fire, and crimefighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin
There was some definate cheese in there, but...
"Scream my rank"
That had myself and all my buddies watching at the time in stitches.
No, it's not sad at all that somebody will put up a copy within hours. Copyright as we know it is ending - it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when and how.
The reason is simple; you can't charge for non-work in the long run. Making an additional copy of something digital is nonwork today; it wasn't when you had to produce an additional physical copy; there were tangible costs associated with that.
Yet, some people are stuck in yesterday's copyright-based business model and are trying to adapt it to a world when making an additional copy 1) is nonwork, 2) is done anyway, infringing on the copyright monopoly, by so many millions of people that the monopoly cannot possibly be enforced by less than draconian methods.
Copyright is ending, it's just a matter of how. And it's a good thing.